Our friends over at ifixit are at it again, how they get these devices so early before release and make a complete teardown in time still amazes us. Today they bring us the latest Microsoft media device, the Zune HD. Some features worth mentioning: The astoundingly thin, 1mm we’re talking, OLED screen. The Nvidia Tegra 2600 processor, hinting at 3D game capability. And finally who could forget the 660 mAh battery. But isn’t that 129 mAh less than the iPod touch? Microsoft’s reply, supposedly the Zune HD is using many more low power hardware solutions in this device. Either…
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Zune HD teardown
Business
Emergency text system goes live
The system is aimed at people who cannot make normal voice calls to the 999 service due to disability. The service sends the text to a voice relay assistant who then speaks the text message to the emergency service and then texts back their reply. If successful, the government initiative, which is backed by Ofcom, would become permanent in early 2010. The scheme is a joint venture between various UK telecom firms. The live trial involves people sending text messages in a real emergency. Administrators are looking for several thousand volunteers, with a preference for disabled users. In an emergency,…
Facebook
How To Become A Master Of Conversations
This is Day 8 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Want to have highly engaging conversations on your Facebook page? You better get good at mastering the art of the social media conversation. How is a conversation within social media any different than a normal conversation? It isn’t! If you are going to build a following on Facebook let alone any other site on the internet, you are going to need to put in the time necessary to build relationships with others. Whether it’s posting follow-up comments or reaching out…
Life
The Wise Person
1. Not emotional, it means a temperamental person, easy to anger, easily offended, be difficult and can only be wise to be wise with God’s persistence and effort to change, so the wise person who is skilled to control themselves. Be careful if we include people who are angry easily if the act is usually tend to be in a hurry. The people who shoulder a little emotional akan busy on the defensive and offensive reply, this is not wise because you are looking for is not a personal victory of truth itself. 2. Not selfish, selfish people who clearly…
Software
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS09-014 – Critical
This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer or if a user connects to an attacker 39 s server by way of the HTTP protocol Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 5 01 and Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 running on supported editions of…
Facebook
Facebook Finally Adds Commenting to Wall Posts
When Facebook added commenting to users’ shared items, the feature instantly took off. The only problem with the feature was that it practically made wall posts obsolete. Replying to one of your friends’ wall posts required a deeper time investment (at least a few seconds). Thankfully Facebook has updated the feature so that you can now reply to wall posts directly from your profile or wherever the wall post is written.
Interestingly, a comment which is posted in response to another wall post does not become another wall post. It makes sense but definitely makes the “Wall-to-Wall” feature a bit…
